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The Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance (DHIS) provides leadership and expertise in data, surveillance, and analytics for the CDC and partners with state-of-the-art information systems, capacity building services, and high-quality data to guide public health decisions and actions. These include in case surveillance; syndromic ...
The Center for Environmental Health was an outgrowth of CDC's heavy involvement in recent environmental health incidents such as chemical contamination in Triana, Alabama and Love Canal, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens; it also inherited existing programs in rat control, lead, dental disease, cancer ...
The HHS populates a publicly available dashboard called the Health System Measurement Project, to ensure a robust monitoring system. The dashboard captures the access, quality and cost of care; overall population health; and health system dynamics (e.g., workforce, innovation, health information technology).
The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) is a US national initiative, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for advancing fully capable and interoperable information systems in public health organizations. [1] The initiative involves establishing and implementing a framework for public health information systems.
The CDC collects and publishes health information for travelers in a comprehensive book, CDC Health Information for International Travel, which is commonly known as the "yellow book." [ 79 ] The book is available online and in print as a new edition every other year and includes current travel health guidelines, vaccine recommendations, and ...
The NCDC's is assisted by a number of regional health stations around the country, which also conduct immunization and detection. [ citation needed ] The responsibilities the NCDC is not only to carry out surveillance of communicable and non-communicable diseases , but also to investigate outbreaks of particular interest, one notable case being ...
The last flu season, the CDC estimated that the virus was associated with 40 million illnesses, 18 million medical visits, 470,000 hospitalizations, and 28,000 deaths.
Some patient portal applications exist as stand-alone web sites and sell their services to healthcare providers. Other portal applications are integrated into the existing website of a healthcare provider. Still others are modules added onto an existing electronic medical record (EMR) system. What all of these services share is the ability of ...